DailySkew

I don’t know. Twenty Ten sounds OK when I say it, but folks might just be influenced by the movie title Two Thousand Ten (the sequel to Two Thousand One A Space Odyssey).

I hope we all start saying twenty-ten. Maybe we should start campaigning now to enlighten the masses. Another thing that I have been thinking about is what we are going to call the decade. We have the noughties, twenties, thirties, forties, fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties and nineties but what do you call the ‘teens’? The teens sounds rubbish and we can’t exactly say the teenties. What do we call it?

I’ve always thought that to maintain consistency, we should have been saying “twenty – oh – one” etc, from the very first. We said “nineteen – ninety” whatever, so why not continue the style?

It makes more sense to say, Twenty ten, Rather than two thousand ten, But people will have their own ways of saying it…. But for sure twenty ten will be the most commonly used.

Well, saying twenty 10 certainly is easier. But, if it has to be spoken out loud, I think two thousand 10 will still be used.

I can remember when 1984 was so far in the future that the only person that could imagine it was Orwell….. and 2010… what kinda number is that !

would think that just saying 10, or 21 or so would be ok. when you get to the 2041 or 2075 I think many would just assume you meant 2041 not 1941 and such.

People would just be referring to the 20 century for anything in the 1900′s and just assume you were speaking about the 21 century I know I won’t be around in 2041 or 2075 , so I will just let them work it all out. Time will tell.

• The biggest gaffe is space travel. Everyone believed that by 2010 the moon would have been colonized and we would be way past Jupiter in terms of colonizing our solar system.
• Alien contact would have already been made.
• They did not predict that “smaller is better” would be the trend for technology.
• The closest we have to “virtual reality” is World of Warcraft, no Holodeck, folks.
• Robots in general, and the robot/computer revolution. Pass.
• Apocalypse. Remember that Y2K scare? Yup.
• Humans evolving into hairless telepaths. Actually, humanity is devolving.
• U.S.A vs U.S.S.R = nuclear holocaust. Yawn.
• The United Nations or United Federation of Planets or some other Utopian New World Order is in control. One group could NEVER MANAGE this world.
• Flying cars. Heck, even mainstream electric or solar powered cars. WTF is this hyrid junk we have bought into?
• Computer-run umpires or referees.
• Metal buildings. Why not?
• Woman President of the United States. No comment.
• No world hunger. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
• Overpopulation. “By the year 2000, there will be no room left for anyone.”
• Extinctions caused by mankind. We’ve eased up on that, I think. I read one article that said we would be forced to eat bumble-bees since we would have exhausted our beef supply.
• Cloning humans- same age, same memories, same personality. HAHAHAHAHAHA
• Utilizing the arctic poles and deserts for SOMETHING useful besides oil.
• Paperless. Uh-huh.
• No ghettos, slums, or dirt in the future- perfect infrastructure and transportation. Man, I would love to smoke whatever those guys were smoking after World War II. Oh, it was called national pride.
• Cyborgs- yeah, ‘cuz you know, I’m really sure our health insurance company will pay for cybernetic body parts.